Full title: The laws of cool : knowledge work and the culture of information / Alan Liu.

Author/creator: Liu, Alan, 1953-.

Date: 2004..

Call Numbers: N303.4833/ 158

Record Identifier: 74VKP0Z07q3g

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xi, 573 p. ; 24 cm., Introduction : literature and creative destruction -- Pt. I. The new enlightenment -- Preface : "unnice work" : knowledge work and the academy -- 1. The idea of knowledge work -- Pt. II. Ice ages -- Preface : "we work here, but we're cool" -- 2. Automating -- 3. Informating -- 4. Networking -- Pt. III. The laws of cool -- Preface : "what's cool?" -- 5. The ethos of information -- 6. Information is style -- 7. The feeling of information -- 8. Cyber-politics and bad attitude -- Pt. IV. Humanities and arts in the age of knowledge work -- Preface : "more" -- 9. The tribe of cool -- 10. Historicizing cool : humanities in the information age -- 11. Destructive creativity : the arts in the information age -- 12. Speaking of history : toward an alliance of new humanities and new arts (with a prolegomenon on the future literary) -- App. A. Taxonomy of knowledge work -- App. B. Chronology of downsizing (through the 1990s) -- App. C. "Ethical hacking" and art.

Publishers: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-539) and index.

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DDC: 303.4833

MMS ID: 991019752759702626